Toward an Integrative Explanation of Corporate Financial Performance Book

	Preface
I	What Determines Corporate Financial Performance?	1
II	What We Know (Or Think We Know) about the Causes of Superior Financial Performance	27
III	An Empirical Examination of Financial Performance: Distilling the Essential Causal Factors	83
IV	Improving Financial Performance: Summary and Research Agenda	175
App. I	A Short Selected Background to the Building Blocks	219
App. II	A Brief Description of the Empirical Study of 113 Major U.S. Manufacturing Firms	235
App. III	An Empirical Test of In Search of Excellence	238
App. IV	Conducting the Meta-Analysis	247
App. V	Detailed Results of the Partial Replication of the "Top 100 Plus" Studies	267
App. VI	Survival in Our Sample of Fortune 500 Firms	282
App. VII	Developing the Scales that Summarize Environment, Strategy and Organization	287
App. VIII	Detailed Statistical Results on How the Scales Relate to Financial Performance	305
App. IX	Technical Characteristics of the Translog Performance Function	316
App. X	Toward Estimating Scale Values from Publicly Available Data	324
App. XI	Developing Firm Profiles by Cluster Analysis	337
App. XII	Authors Who Have Studied the Underlying Concepts Summarized in Our 34 Scales	341
	References	349
	Index	395